Posts Tagged ‘commitment’

The Nature of Commitment

In a comment on my recent post about breaking up, someone asked if I'd write a follow-up about staying together. I've actually written about successful relationships before, based less on my own experience than on the work of relationship psychologists, so I'll just refer you there if you're looking for relationship advice. But thinking about what goes into a committed relationship got… Continue reading

October 14 2009 | By Dustin | Tagged: choice, commitment, mission, personal growth, purpose | 12 comments»

You Want Engagement? Then Start Being Clear!

You want engagement. But no one’s buying. If you want something done you have to spell it out in detail, or even give up and get to that ugly “I’ll just do it myself” place of the defeated manager. You feel like every time you turn your back, the wheels come off the bus again. You’ve got zero engagement. So how do you fix that? Continue reading

May 8 2009 | By Clemens | Tagged: business, change, clarity, commitment, engagement, entrepreneurship, growth, hopefulness, leadership, organizational development, teamwork, vision | 16 comments»

14 Tips For Resolutions That Stick in the New Year

Statistics show that only about 15% of New Years Resolutions are kept. With an 85% failure rate, it’s no wonder that the amount of resolutions made is dropping. You wouldn’t buy a product that is defective 85% of the time, so why buy into the annual hype about resolutions? A strategy that fails over four fifths of the time is broken. The question… Continue reading

December 27 2007 | By Scott H | Tagged: change, commitment, diet, exercise, goal, habit, improvement, new years resolution, Productivity | 35 comments»

8 Ways to Achieve Success in 2008

I don't believe in resolutions. The idea that a trick of the calendar should be the driving force for real change in my life seems silly. And yet, there's no denying that a year is a good block of time to think with -- long enough to carry out big projects and short enough to keep the end-goal in sight. Plus, a year is a good block of… Continue reading

December 26 2007 | By Dustin | Tagged: commitment, goal, motivation, resolution, success | 29 comments»

18 Tricks to Make New Habits Stick

Wouldn’t it be nice to have everything run on autopilot? Chores, exercise, eating healthy and getting your work done just happening automatically. Unless they manage to invent robot servants, all your work isn’t going to disappear overnight. But if you program behaviors as new habits you can take out the struggle. With a small amount of initial discipline, you can create a new habit that requires little… Continue reading

August 14 2007 | By Scott H | Tagged: commitment, consistence, discipline, habit | 80 comments»

Putting Your Trust in . . . Trust

Trust is an essential component in almost all dealings between human beings, other than outright hostile ones like wars and terrorism. It is certainly vital for the proper running of any organization, as well as for almost all the components of trade and commerce. Lack of trust between trading partners undermines the proper functioning of business. Mistrust is a major cause of excessive (and unnecessary) workload on leaders, since the… Continue reading

November 27 2006 | By Guest | Tagged: business-ethics, civilized-work, collaboration, commitment, corporate-culture, empowerment, Hamburger-Management, honesty, innovation, integrity, leadership, Lifehack, Management, micro-management, motivation, office-politics, relationships, teamwork, trust, work, work-life, workstyle | 3 comments»

Work is Not a Game

Sport and competition go together. Taking the competition away from sport would reduce it to a pointless, illogical activity. Competition and business go together too, and many links are made between sporting achievement and business success. But work and business are not games. Competition is no longer healthy in the workplace when it gets out of hand. The essential difference between sporting competition and competition in the business world is choice… Continue reading

July 3 2006 | By Guest | Tagged: accomplishment, achievement, commitment, competition, evaluation, freedom, fun, mentoring, motivation, winning, work/life-balance | 1 comment»

How Civilized is Your Workplace?

A civilized workplace is one where people have the time and freedom to do their jobs to the best of their ability. No one is bullied or hassled by some boss high on ego and testosterone. Leaders trust their subordinates to do what they're paid to do; and subordinates trust their leaders to act with their interests in mind as well as the firm's profits (and the executives' stock options). Continue reading

May 29 2006 | By Guest | Tagged: achievement, civilization, civilized-work, commitment, ethics, fun, leadership, lifebalance, managememt, Management, manager, office-politics, organization, performance, prioritization, Productivity, trust, vision, work, work-life | 1 comment»

How To Make Resolutions You’ll Keep

Too many resolutions barely last through January. Here's how to make plnas for 2006 you'll be certain to keep. Continue reading

January 2 2006 | By Guest | Tagged: action, article, career, commitment, failure, happiness, health, learning, Lifehack, motivation, personal, planning, resolution | 2 comments»

On Ho‘ohiki: Keeping your promises

Aloha, let’s manage with aloha: Work well, live well. This is a short and sweet post folks, but it’s important. You should consider your credibility and your reputation with keeping your word to be one of the defining hallmarks of your character. However life happens. There will be times when you’ve fallen short of delivering on a commitment you made. What is the best way to make up for it when this happens?

Own

September 29 2005 | By Rosa | Tagged: business, commitment, personal, reputation | 5 comments»